A raging fire broke out under a PATH train in Jersey City early Monday, leaving nine passengers hospitalized when smoke filled their cars and commuter chaos with multiple lines suspended.
The blaze started under an eastbound train at the Newport PATH station around 6:15 a.m. — with passengers evacuated when the train filled with smoke, CBS News reported.
Dramatic video showed passengers yelling for the doors to be opened — with one rider shouting, “Move, move, move!”
Huge flames can be seen belching out of the end of the train as the person filming the mayhem steps out onto the platform.
At least 13 passengers were treated for smoke inhalation, and nine of them were hospitalized, Fox 5 reported.
One witness described hearing “a loud explosion” before the fire broke out in a post on X.
“This was not just smoke. The car before me was literally in flames,” a second rider said on social media.
A third witness, Eric Robinson, said he saw people clutching their chests and receiving oxygen during the morning-rush-hour emergency.
“I’m surprised nobody got trampled — the amount of smoke they say was inside and everything,” Robinson told CBS News.
Trains from Journal Square in Jersey City and Hoboken to Manhattan’s 33rd Street station, as well as trains from Hoboken to the World Trade Center, were all suspended.
The Hoboken to 33rd Street line resumed shortly after, and all trains had resumed normal service as of 11 a.m., PATH announced on social media.
The blaze came on the heels of repeated issues for those getting between New Jersey and the Big Apple in recent weeks.
The list has included at least two New Jersey buses separately crashing within days of each other, as well as a car catching fire in the Lincoln Tunnel.
In May, the Garden State was hit by the first major NJ Transit strike in 40 years, too, bringing chaos to hundreds of thousands of commuters.
